VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-2872

critical
Published 2010-08-26 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.8.612 does not properly validate an offset value in the pami RIFF chunk in a Director movie, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted movie.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeshockwave_player{"endIncluding":"11.5.7.609"}
adobe adobeshockwave_player1.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player2.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player3.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player4.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player5.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player6.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.196
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.196a
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.204
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.205
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.100
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.103
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.105
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.106
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.321
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.323
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.324
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.325
adobe adobeshockwave_player9
adobe adobeshockwave_player9.0.383
adobe adobeshockwave_player9.0.432
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.0.0.210
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.0.1.004
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.0.11
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.0.011
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.1.016
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.4.020
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.2.0.021
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.2.0.022
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.2.0.023
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.0.0.456
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.0.3.471
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.0.595
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.0.596
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.1.601
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.2.602
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.6.606

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.